Good Reads Wednesday

Every Wednesday I post my recommendations of the best of last week’s postings concerning wine, whether blogs or news. I list them in the order I read them, so you shouldn’t infer anything about the order in which I list these posts.

Are wine competitions worthwhile? This post concludes they are, and, undoubtedly, to the extent that they drive sales, the post is correct. But what about the research showing grave inconsistencies among the results of different wine competitions?

Will future generations embrace varieties that no one knows about today, or haven’t even been developed yet? There’s a world of opportunity to develop new varieties that will stand up to the various pathogens and other environmental insults that make grape-growing difficult. But if the consumer insists on sticking to the same old varieties, without being willing to try new ones, then the effort to develop new and better grapes will end up being a failure.

How much does color matter in a wine? I’ve always been a little surprised by the answer to the question, since for some people it matters a lot, and for others not at all.

For keeping up to date with what’s going on the in wine world, the best all around source is http://winebusiness.com.

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